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CONTENTS. PAGE

THE BIOLOGY OF THE rYRANNID.E: WVITH RESPECT TO THEIR SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT.

By Dr. H. von Ihering. 3I3

A DISCUSSION OF THE ORIGIN OF MIGRATION. By P. A. Taverner. . . . .322

EXTRACTS FROM AN UNPUIILISHED JOURNAL OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. By Ruf liven Deane. 334

THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON BIRD MIGRATION. By Weells W. Cooke. 338

SPRING MIGRATIONS OF 1903. By Elaon Howard Eato . . . .341

THE CASK OF Megalestris vs. Catharacta. By J. A. A len. . . ... 345

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF THE UPPER PECOS. By Florence Merriam Bailey. 349

THE ORIGIN AND DISTIZIBUTION OF THE CHFSTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE.. By Joseph

Grinsnell.. . . 364

GENERAL NOTES.-Black-capped Petrel in New Hampshire, 383, P1. XXII; Holbcell's Grebe in Lancaster, Mass., 383 ; European Widgeon in Southern California, 383; On the Evanescent Ground-tint of Woodcock's Eggs, 384; How an Abniormal Growth of Bill was Caused, 384; The Evening Grosbea4 in Central New York- in April,'385; The EveIIing Grosbeak at Beverly Mass., 385; Nelsoni's Sharp-tailed Sparrow in North Dakota, 385; Henslow's Sparrow in Chester County, Pa., 386; Henslow's Sparrow at Bethlehem, Pa. -A Correction, 386 ; What has happened to the Martins? 387; B3reediiig of Lawrence Warbler in New York City, 387; Myrtle Warblers Wintering in Maine, 388; Phyllatosnes/es versus Phylloscoa/soi 390; Peculiar Nesting-site of the Bluebird in the Bermsudas, 3900; Dates of Nesting of Bermuda Birds, 391; Unusual Records near Boston, Mass., 391; Scott Oriole, Gray Vireo and Phcebe in Northeastern New Mexico, 392.

RECENT LITERATURE.- Hoffmann's' Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York,' 393; Hornaday's 'Thie American Natural History,' 394; The 'Baby P'athfinder to the Birds,' 395; Proceedings of tlse Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 396; Oddi's 'ManuBle d' Ornitologie Italiana,' 396; Boardman's 'The Naturalist of the -Saint Croix,' 397; Pearson's 'Three Sumnlers among the Birds of Russian Lapland,' 398; Jacobs's 'The Haunts of the Golden-winged Warbler,'

39q, Scott on the Rearing of Wild Finches by Foster-parents of other Species, 399 ;'Scott on the Inheritance of Sonig in Passerine Birds, 400; Rhoads oni the Extinction of the Dickcissel East of the Alleghanies 401; Suilloway's Additional Notes on the Summer Birds of Flathead Lake, 401; Swarth on the 3irds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, 401; Bartsch on the Herons of the District of Columbia, 402 ; Nelsois on New Birds from Mexico., 403 ; Nelson's Revision of the North American Mainland Species of Myiarchus, 403; Bangs on Birds from Honduras, 404; McGregor on Philippine Birds, 404; Code of Botanical Nomenclature, 404.

CORRESPONDENCE.-A Method of Obtaining a Temporary Stabiliy of Names, 406.

NOTES AND NEws.-Obituary: Edwin Sheppard, 407. Field Work of the Biological Survey, 407; The Thayer Expediti 0tq to C4ntral America, 408; American Museum of Natural History, 408; So-called 'Nature Books,' 409; New Ornithological Publications, 409; Michigan Ornithological Club, 4IO; Marking Youtng 13irds, 410.

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